bigboard wrote:
Aileen Howard wrote:
Mike

I do all the gardening anyway. I occasionally use him as labourer
when the digging gets too hard, but he has to look at the results,
and just hates compost bins/heaps, whatever. Still, he has to
'shell out' for lots of bags of compost instead

Regards, Aileen

PS What about the leaves? Do I bag them or throw them away?

Bag them. Making leaf mould takes longer than normal compost though.
Depending on conditions, it may be two years before you have useable
material.

And when he complains about bags of leaves or the cost of compost you then
have a barganing tool.